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Personal documents of Shlomo Pirkies, born in Dubno, Poland; documents dated, 1943-1947, including a diary written by Pirkies as a Polish refugee in the Soviet Union, Germany, and Austria, 1946-1947

Personal documents of Shlomo Pirkies, born in Dubno, Poland; documents dated, 1943-1947, including a diary written by Pirkies as a Polish refugee in the Soviet Union, Germany, and Austria, 1946-1947 - Booklet from the welfare office in Kalinino, in the name of Shlomo Pirka and written in Georgian; booklet issued, 05 May 1943; - Authorization regarding the acceptance of Shlomo Pirka for work in a peat factory in Kalinino, 18 May 1943; - Stipend booklet in the name of Shlomo Pirka, born in 1908, issued in Kalinino, 17 August 1943; - Authorization that Shlomo Pirka is a teacher of foreign languages,...

File Number : 8624

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Postcard, Letter, Diary, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Telegram

Language : Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Georgian

Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more

Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more Death of his mother before the war; work of his father as a tailor; marriage of his elder brother; five siblings; service in the Polish Army before the war; Being taken prisoner by the Germans one half year after the beginning of the war; transfer to a POW camp in Stalag 1; life in Stalag 1 including forced labor in a separate regiment for Jewish POWs, until late 1940; deportation from Germany to Poland, 1941; arrival at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Form used in the search for relatives after the Holocaust sent by Oskar Paserman in [the] Bergen-Belsen [DP camp] to Mirjam Zborowska in Rishon Le-Zion in Eretz Israel through the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Oskar Paserman was born in Zawierci, Poland in October 1918; he was an inmate in Bergen-Belsen and survived the Holocaust; his sister, Hanka, was also an inmate in Bergen-Belsen and survived. Mirjam Zborowska was born in Zawierce, Poland, 1913, and made aliya to Eretz Israel with her sister, Esther (who submitted the material) in 1936. Notes from Esther Shushan-Zborowska, who submitted the...

File Number : 735

Type of Material : Document

Language : German

Documentation of the Derman family

Documentation of the Derman family - Letter sent to Anita Mark by the David Moshvitz Convalescent Home regarding the girl Ester Gürtler, 23 June 1949; - Letters sent by the JDC in Cyprus to Anita Mark in Ramat Gan to notify her relatives about the aliya of Yeti Blittman and Stela Gürtler to Eretz Israel, 26 February 1948; - Letter from David Dickman in Suceava to Elchanan Scheimi in Tel Yosef with a notification that Stela Gürtler was staying in Cyprus and with the address of Anita Mark in Eretz Israel, 03 March 1948 (Yiddish); - History of the Derman family; - Letter sent to Anita Mark by Paul...

File Number : 2130

Type of Material : Genealogy, Biography, Testimony, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, German, Yiddish

Personal documents of the Brem family, 1989-2011

Personal documents of the Brem family, 1989-2011 Included in the file: - Biography of his grandmother Anna Brem, written by Yitzchak Gordon, 27 May 1989; - Copy of an article in an American newspaper about the Brem family when they received US citizenship, with mention of Paul Brem's work as a maintenance man and plumber at "Forest Park"; - Letter of testimony by Ellen Grosbard Brem regarding her parents' life during the war, dated, 04 April 2011 and an additional letter of testimony, dated, 02 May 2011; Note: Anna Brem, born 20 October 1924, was the daughter of Yitzhak Yaacov and Erlanki [?],...

File Number : 8581

Type of Material : Biography, Article, Letter of Testimony

Language : English

Letters sent by Dora Helfer from Paris to her sister in Germany, 1946-1947, a letter sent via the Red Cross by Markus Helfer in Algeria to his mother, Maria Helfer, in Chrzanow, 25 December 1940, and a diary containing poems written by Dora Helfer in the Peterswaldau camp, 1944-1945 Letters: - Letters sent by Dora Helfer from Paris to her sister Rachel Reich in Germany, 1946-1947; - Letter sent by Ida Weinstock from Sweden to Dola Helfer in Paris, 16 January 1946; - Letter sent by Markus Helfer (brother of Dola Helfer) from Algeria via the Red Cross to his mother, Maria Helfer, in Chrzanow, 25...

File Number : 2015

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Red Cross Letter, Diary, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Polish, French, German

Letters sent to Shmuel Leib Sznajderman and his wife, Halina Eileen (Szymin) Sznajderman in New York from their families in Kazimierz Dolny and Otwock, 1940-1941

Letters sent to Shmuel Leib Sznajderman and his wife, Halina Eileen (Szymin) Sznajderman in New York from their families in Kazimierz Dolny and Otwock, 1940-1941 - Letters and postcards sent to Eileen (Szymin) Sznajderman in New York from her parents in Otwock, 1940-1941; - Letter sent to Shmuel Leib Sznajderman in New York by his father in Kazimierz Dolny, 21 May 1941; - Letter from the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) to Eileen and Shmuel Leib Sznajderman in New York in response to their request to locate members of their families, 16 July 1941. Note: Shmuel Leib Sznajderman was born...

File Number : 2004

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish

Report by the JDC, regarding the activities of Saly Mayer in rescuing Jews in Budapest, 1944, report prepared, 04 October 1945

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Reports

Language : English

Documentation of Dr. Israel Kasztner containing corrections and comments to a report prepared by the JDC, 1945, regarding the activities of Saly Mayer in Budapest, 1944

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Reports

Language : English

Two letters from Zwi Landesman to the editorial board of the "Hungarian Communities Registry", regarding a Torah crown from Makó which was looted by the Germans and subsequently arrived in Eretz Israel after World War II with the asistance of the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee), 1962

File Number : 611

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

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